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The Ron Show

Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta"s only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he"s just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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00:44:31

"We just weren't prepared" - Augusta reeling from...

The Ron Show ·

2024/10/01

It's far worse a scene in the western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee region, no doubt, and Asheville, NC has been ravaged by the tropical storm forces of Helene last week, but I wanted to start my discussion this week with my good friend, an old radio buddy of mine, and the guy who essentially provided me the tools and know-how to even launch this show and podcast: Robb Smith - "aka 'Big Robb' of the "Chewing the Fat" podcast. Long story short: "we just weren't prepared," he said. Robb gives

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00:44:30

Lawfare's Anna Bower: no legal loophole to aid a...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/27

Unsure if Hurricane Helene was going to trounce Atlanta and render me unavailable this morning, I caught up with Lawfare's newest senior editor, Anna Bower, to discuss her latest piece: Will Georgia's New Election Rules Allow Trump to Steal The Presidency? Quite the headline, no? I won't spoil it for you and blurt out the answer but ... eh. Enjoy the conversation between me and my pedestrian non-judicious brain and Anna's brilliance.

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00:44:30

The real Democrat running against two Trump acolytes...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/26

Georgia's 11th Congressional district has a unique general election scenario awaiting its voters. First, GOP incumbent Barry Loudermilk has spent much of the last two terms shilling for Donald Trump's "big lie" and whitewashing the January 6th insurrection. He's on the ballot, as is Katy Stamper - a former Libertarian candidate whose birth name is Karen Sacandy - who ran as a Democrat in the primary season and because of fluid primary voting with conservatives crossing over to

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00:46:58

The "sit down" double standard & the persistence of...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/25

While the right howls with indignation that VP Kamala Harris is going to do her first network TV interview with MSNBC'S Stephanie Ruhle, they seem to forget her opponent, Donald Trump, never wanders far off the OANN/NewsMax/Fox News reservation himself. The few times he has, of course, he's stormed off set (ask Leslie Stahl and '60 Minutes'). I dove into that double-standard a bit, focusing on NYT conservative columnist Bret Stephens' latest piece portraying him as a "never

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00:44:30

Apalachee students answer the bell; Republicans, not...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/25

Today saw the return of most Apalachee HS students to most of their school's campus. With "The Rock" welcoming football players and a talented student musician going viral on TikTok just for emoting over the loss of his teacher and classmates, there's no shortage of courage on display. Republicans in a position to do something on the senselessness of near-unfettered access to weapons designed to kill mass quantities of people in short bursts have shown no such courage since that

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00:44:31

The elections board ladies doth protest too much,...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/24

The now two-day Georgia Elections Board September hearing - stretching from Friday to today - has been a drama-filled doozie - and I've plenty of audio to share with you, so get your popcorn and settle in for a wild ride. Remember when this board as a boring, "mostly-ministerial acts" sort of body? Ahh, good times. Instead, now, our state's board wants to further gum up Election Day/night certification by having humans hand-count paper ballots - by the thousands and reams of pages

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01:09:00

Trump pre-blames Jewish voters while Kamala rallies...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/21

What a contrast: as Donald Trump stumped before the Israeli-America Council pre-blaming Jewish voters for not fawning over him, Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey for what was essentially an hour-plus long infomercial, reminiscent of the 1992 Ross Perot run. Part of that Kammie/Oprah sit-down included the family or Amber Thurman, featured in recent days by ProPublica as among the first casualties of Georgia's six-week abortion ban. ProPublica shared another story, Friday. There's

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00:44:30

"Nice polls & all, but what're the yard signs telling...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/20

New polling in battleground states Georgia, Pennsylvania and nationally offer some mixed messaging - but the consensus is: 1. Kamala Harris has either made up ground or surpassed Trump and 2. this race is a dead heat But what are yard signs (or lack thereof) and local TV, radio and social influencer vibes telling us? Friend of the show King Williams tweeted earlier this week his concerns about the Democratic party's ground game in Georgia. He ain't feeling it. I sort of predicted this being

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00:44:29

Rhetorically speaking, dubious Don set - and...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/18

I do get a kick out of Senator JD Vance howling with indignation that folks on the left need to dial down the divisive rhetoric as if we're all unaware who his running mate is. As a matter of fact, before my day got away from me yesterday, I'd planned to splice together a batch of clips of one Donald John Trump and his many years of heated rancor. Fortunately, the Daily Show has a staff capable of doing that while I'm just a staff of one. There's plenty of coverage pre-January 6th

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00:44:29

"Pregnant pause: the deadly consequence of Georgia's...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/17

New ProPublica reporting details an unintended consequence of Georgia's six-week abortion ban: it's killed at least one (so far) pregnant woman - and likely more. Amber Nicole Thurman's story is one likely repeating since her passing in 2022, but we won't know until further data gets released by the state. There's a political distinction to this, too: conservative white men don't seem to care, nor do they want the fact that non-white women are vastly more likely to lose

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00:44:30

Springfield mayor on Trump/Vance: "They need to know...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/16

Sure, I could spend time today handwringing over a second Trump assassination, but I've become desensitized since they just keep happening - much the way America is desensitized to gun violence. So, since the GOP says there's nothing we can do about curbing access to weapons for nuts, why bother? Instead, there's more to know about that goings on in Springfield, Ohio, where a rust belt city's renaissance is largely due to the influx of legal immigrants. Instead, the focus is drawn to

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00:44:29

It's funny, but it's not: Trump's anti-immigrant...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/13

Okay, we've all had a few good laughs over the whole "eating dogs and cats" quip from the Tuesday night debate (what IS it with JD Vance and cats?) but in all seriousness, Donald Trump's continued reliance of "hearsay" and "TV" for information - particularly anti-immigrant rhetoric - is dangerous and reckless. Kudos to Ana Navarro for calling it out. And to Kaitlan Collins for holding a Trump surrogate to account, as well. Back at home, Georgia House Speaker

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00:44:31

"Trump had a bad night ... this was pretty much her...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/11

The headline for today's podcast came from the lips of Brit Hume on Fox News, and if that doesn't set the table for the conversation today, maybe it was the handshake she charged towards Donald to give well past midway on the stage to pronounce her name correctly for him. He never said her name; he invoked Joe Biden several times, but never once said her name. George Chidi from The Atlanta Objective and Melita Easters, executive director at the Georgia WIN List join me today for some

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00:44:31

The "Prophet" who's rarely wrong predicts...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/11

American University Professor Alan Lichtman has made a near-flawless science of correctly predicting presidential elections since 1984 - having only been wrong once. Well, his 2024 call was announced - and ... well tune in (or get past the NYT paywall here). While more than half the Georgia GOP Congressional representation still peddles "big lie" fodder, MAGA nuts like Nick Fuentes are FURIOUS Donald (finally) conceded he lost "by a whisker" in 2020. He took to Truth Social to

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00:44:32

Why "now's not the time" with NRA-backed politicians

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/09

Georgia House Democrats Friday urged a special session from Governor Brian Kemp (R - NRA) to address what they believe are needed legislative reforms in the aftermath of the Apalachee High School mass shooting. They won't get one, because problem-solving isn't big on Kemp's "to do" list, but proposed legislation like Dr. Michelle Au's "Pediatric Health Safe Storage Act" deserve more than a "committee hearing" after a lack of "safe storage" by

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00:44:30

Confronting negligent parenting and the white "gun...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/06

As families make burial and/or memorial plans in Winder, Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) pinned the father of the 14-year old shooting suspect with an array of charges, including second degree murder. We've learned more about the 2023 incident where a Jackson County (GA) sheriff's investigator visited father Collin and son Colt in 2023 - yet another "warning sign" that went largely untouched. Hear those conversations. Oh, and mother Marcee, has a long criminal

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00:46:29

Apalachee joins a long (sure to grow) list of...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/05

You can tell we're desensitized by mass shootings when it doesn't take over your social media feeds. Such was the case yesterday when the U.S. largely went about its business as four were killed in a north Georgia high school at the hands of a 14-year old boy with access to an "AR style" weapon. You can hear the late-night GBI update, with Governor Brian Kemp (for whatever reason) droning on with his thanks (the least he can do, being the signer of gun nut-friendly laws), local TV

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00:44:30

Fox can't un-data their own data & would the GOP be...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/05

Fox News is always gonna "Fox News" with antics from the likes of Jesse Watters (even 'judge Jeanine' gets turned off by him now and then), but they can't un-data their own data. Their latest polling shows Kamala Harris has caught (and likely surpassed) Donald Trump in key swing states and nationally.Ya know what? Those polls may actually under-sell her position, what with the surge in voter registration since she ascended to the top of the ticket.An intriguing piece from

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00:44:30

The Labor Day contrast: candidates out "working" for...

The Ron Show ·

2024/09/04

Governor Tim Walz stumped in Wisconsin at "Laborfest" while a rejuvenated President Joe Biden joined VP Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Labor Day rallying organized labor. Meanwhile, Donald Trump stewed on social media from Mar A Lago (with nothing on his calendar this week) and his VP pick, Senator JD Vance did as most Americans did and just enjoyed an "off-day."The contrasts couldn't be more glaring, but you'll hear both stump stops and get some noteworthy reminders who

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01:00:57

Reviewing "game film" - the CNN "first interview"

The Ron Show ·

2024/08/30

The Harris/Walz bus tour is now in Florida, after putzing around southeast Georgia a couple days, but before they took off, they got to hang in a Savannah cafe for a bit to go two-on-one with CNN'S Dana Bash for the VP and her running mate's first interview atop the Democratic ticket. I likened it to a (painful, for this Falcons' fan) football game - it's "must win" and you have the lead and the ball and instead of keeping your foot on the gas and going for more scores, I

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